Oh Bill, How Entertaining!
I have to tell you something sad. Brian Williams goes down but Bill O’Reilly will survive. And that’s because Bill O’Reilly is a damn bully who casts himself as the victim. The man is as fake as a $4. wig.
O’Reilly survived a kinky sexual harassment lawsuit in 2004 by settling out of court after threatening his accuser. It worked then and he assumes that it will work again. And it probably will.
Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”
Bill O’Reilly’s fan base thinks it’s dandy to threaten the New York Times.
I don’t know how seriously I’d take his threat. On the one hand, O’Reilly came after Barack Obama with everything he has and that amounted to a jar of spit. On the other hand, he’s three pounds of hate in a two pound bag. He has no idea how to pull in on the reins and holler whoa.
Good Lord, if Rush Limbaugh can survive with the religious right, Bill O’Reilly could burn a crucifix on live teevee and they’d find a reason to call it liberty.
Y’all, he’s worthless as a three card flush. He really is.
Take this man seriously? Not.
Lawrence O’Donnell “ire-ish” ‘splained Billo to Rachel Maddow last night, as all bluster no bite. Or, “it’s the quiet ones that are lethal.” That certainly leaves out Billo as a threat to anyone.
1And flush is exactly what I’d like to do to him. He’s taking up valuable space that should be occupied by someone useful and intelligent.
2There are those who think O’Reilly’s lies are part of the package and that no one should expect anything else from him. I vehemently disagree. He has infected the minds of millions of Americans with his mix of misinformation and hate. He should be called to account for lying about his exploits and setting himself up as an authority on these subjects so his dishonesty can be laid bare in public. It may not convince the hard core rwnj’s but just might help the “low information” voters to see what’s been going on.
3This whole flap just plays right into his and Fox News’ hands. His ratings went up because this just proves to his viewers that the “media” are out to get him. Like Sarah Palin before him, it’s good to be the victim.
4I do what little I can to keep my blood pressure from exploding through the roof by giving rightwing blowhards as little attention as possible. One of them having lied about something and then threatening anyone who points that out is hardly news.
5Lies and hypocrisy permeate the radical right base. Sarah Palin’s unwed daughter was pregnant when she ran for VP, but the religious right gave her a pass. You can bet they would have had plenty to say (and to spew) if a Dem were in a similar position.
Reilly and his ilk own the “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” meme. They get away with it because they glory in judging other people’s behavior while making no effort to improve their own. After all, if they sin it’s just ’cause Satan is tempting them extra hard ’cause their so special.
6I thought Jon Stewart took an especially easy take on O’Reilly. Disappointed.
7Now how can y’all be runnin’ down one of his generation’s greatest warrior-witnesses to history?
He witnessed the nuns being killed in South America, he was on the ground bringing live reports from the Falklands during the war, and he’s a front-line soldier in the wars against feminism and Christmas. He got a own congressional medal of honor for the former, presented by Bill Cosby his own self.
Y’all got to respect the troops.
8Bill’s also a card-carrying, All-American ChickenHawk, with a spine made up of feces colored jello!
Billo graduated from Marist College the spring of 1971. While attending college Bill was a punter and a pitcher on his schools teams! Late spring or early summer, Bill also tried out for the New York Mets as a pitcher!
At the same exact time that Bill was pitching for a semi-pro team called the New York/Brooklyn Monarch’s, he was called up for a “Armed Forces Physical Examination” or draft physical, as he had lost his school deferments!
Guess what happened to Bill the pitcher/punter? He flunked his draft physical, that’s right he wasn’t healthy enough to play in the major leagues, the U S military, but was healthy enough to pitch in the minor leagues!
O’Reilly has never addressed how and why he flunked his draft physical!
Here’s Bill’s Selective Service Record which I FOIA’d back in ’05 or ’06!
https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2&ik=61b860361d&view=att&th=14baccf5ca7a8fdd&attid=0.1&disp=inline&realattid=f_i6f6f5fu0&safe=1&zw&sadnir=1&saduie=AG9B_P_EDX3I8fOuQrXEEq5NTDOf&sadet=1424967932093&sads=KhckkhiW5KU6nQb0YYnB7kRGFYs
Now on top of everything else that Bill is, he also can be called a ChickenHawk!
9Who knew that Bill O’Reilly was really Forrest Gump?
10It was very easy to get out of military service during Viet Nam. You went to a selective service specializing law firm. They decided what avenue you should pursue to get deferred. They decided where in the country you should present yourself (or should avoid) to submit paperwork. New Orleans was a favorite as I recall. You could go the medical, mental, educational or religious route. There were sympathetic doctors and psychiatrists who would write convincing letters. I worked for a selective service firm as a legal secretary in Santa Monica. We kept out or got out an average of thirty guys every day…almost 100% success rate.
All of us were good enough at this to do it independently. I have five brothers. Only one went, and that was because he wanted to. Fortunately, he came home alive and whole, but I got some pretty strange letters from him as he spent a lot of time dropping acid when he was over there.
11I always find that laughing at the vicious pathetic ones like Bill, helps.
When I was a kid we used to point and laugh when someone was so obnoxious there was almost nothing short of exiling them into the woods to get them to shut up. Bill won’t shut up and go away—-but pointing and laughing continually will shatter that ego.
12I have a venom sac full of stuff to say about Billo. But, MY mother wouldn’t approve. Billo is a !@#$%^&*()
13Brian Williams was hauled out to the NBC woodshed because people expected accuracy in his reports.
Nobody listens to Bill O’Reilly for accurate information. His job is to bluster and whip up his audience into a frenzy over the topic of the day. By claiming he’s a victim of the liberal media, he’s just doing what he always does.
A week or two ago Sun News, the “Fox News of the North,” Canada’s version of right wing TV went out of business. Nobody up there seems to want to watch a fake news peddler like Bill O’Reilly.
14http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/13/sun-news-network-canadas-fox-news-north-has-bee/202530
Rick-just goes to show Canadians are smarter than ‘murricans’ No “fake noize” and universal health care.
15http://www.gocomics.com/jeffdanziger/2015/02/26
and for good measure
http://www.gocomics.com/tedrall/2015/02/26
There’s another good one but it’s Texas-based so I’ll leave it for JJ to share, and hope I’m not already stepping on her Friday….
16Lest we forget, way back 20 years or more ago, when Senator Al Franken was known as “that Stuart Smalley guy” to most folks, he wrote a book called “Lies! And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them” and also coined the name “Bill O’Liely”
All them chickens are finally coming home to roost, and the left side of the media, at least, and the liberal blogosphere, will probably keep this going for awhile. I anticipate there will be regular updates, or fresh occurrences, similar to Rand Paul’s plagiarism issues (or, to be fair, Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions”).
I believe that this is going to be one of those times where the perfect storm arises, and a cyclone of former producers, co-workers, directors, employees, crew-members, guests, and anyone who’s been anywhere near O’Reilly will gain speed and power as it bears down on this self-obsessed blowhard bully, and serial truth and falafel abuser.
Although FOX News is, well, you know, FOX News, they are not immune to pressure. Just look under the rather large rock that is home to Glenn Beck, now, and know that there is a limit to their patience.
17Fred F: Billo’s spine is NOT feces-colored jello. It’s feces, colored yellow. And it extends all the way up into what is facetiously referred to as his brain.
18Remember the title of Al Franken’s book?
19Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/oct/11/highereducation.news1)
Guess who was one of the most frequently mentioned people in that book. And did he sue Franken (who was only a comedian at the time, not a US Senator)? Noooooo.
Mother Jones will not back down any more than its namesake would have.
I am a long tome subscriber to MJ.
20So, according to how BillO thinks, when I saw a picture of, oh, say, George Washington once, that’s the same as knowing him, right?
21I can’t stand O’Reilly, but I can’t fault anybody for trying not to die in a rice paddy. I am of that age.
22He used a phone to threaten someone? Hey, that is a federal offense! Where is the outrage! Where or where are the phone police!
23Survive? He’ll probably get a promotion. He works for FOX.
24Henry @ 22
I wouldn’t fault anyone for that either… except that he’s been a cheerleader for war ever since, entirely enthralled with sending other people off to war. Kinda like some other chicken-hawk cheerleaders who don’t have the courage of their own convictions: Dick “five deferrals” Cheney, Ted “I sh*t my pants” Nugent, yada yada.
25Chris Christie, Bill O’Lielly, Jeb Bush, Karl Rove, Darth Cheney, sundry and other Rethuglicans caught with their lies at front and center–not one of them with the sense of honor to step out of the limelight and make atonement for betraying their word and being caught.
Once upon a time, a man of honor would do that. Brian Williams did do that. Nixon only did it when threatened with impeachment.
26WA Skeptic is exactly right. A man of honor is a scarce commodity in the circle on the far right.
27Wonkette blasts Orally,as well and debunks his I saw nuns shot in the back of the head fable. The nuns were shot in 1980 and Orally wasn’t in El Salvador until 81. He saw photos of the event,not the actual event-unless he has terrific hindsight.
28Thing about him is, he calls a guy a “baby killer” and also gets to feign outrage – he’s shocked, *shocked* to find someone thought said “baby killer” should be planted.
And really, that works – assuming he’s the kind of guy who doesn’t want baby killers dead. Oh, wait, that won’t work. Well, anyway, you shouldn’t let one, uh, two, uh, a few, uh… look, just because the guy’s name *rhymes* with killer, don’t blame O’Lie-ly… oh, it’s not very nice to point out rhymes?
Hm.
Ayup.
I got nothing.
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